Kashrus Alert!!! Replacements.com

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Do NOT buy any dishes at replacements.com. Turns out, most of their stuff is used (not that you can tell). We bought all this stuff to match our china (Things we never got - bowls, things we broke - plates). We have to return it all Sad

. Now we'll never have the replacements.
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How do you know that their stuff is used? I'm panicking - cuz a while ago I bought a few pieces of china to match our set - and I don't even know which ones they are!

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

It says on their website and dh just called. Most of their stuff is used, just in really good condition. Lots of their stuff comes from people who got divorced and want to unload their china to get money back.

Def. call your Rav. Dh brought all the stuff plus a new set from a different website and got the stuff mixed up. We have to return IT ALL because we don't know which was from replacements.com and which was the new stuff!!!! Argh!

Posted: Tue, Aug 19 2008, 11:33 pm Post subject:

is there not a way to kasher dishes ...
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Gold Member Joined: May 14 2008 Posts: 1668

I thought that with China you can wait a full year of not using it and then it is as if they are new..?

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

I called our Rabbi about this. He said that was a kula by Rav Moshe Feinstein that had to do with Baalei Teshuva who had already had the dishes and it would be a huge financial loss for them. So he doesn't think the kula holds by us because we're not suffering a huge financial loss. additionally, I asked about dishes from grandparents who weren't kosher. He maintained that the kula wouldn't cover that as well.

Ask your LOR

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Oh, he said the only way to use these things would be to reglaze them or put them in the oven to self-cleaning, but I think that would ruin the china.

Why would you want to use someone else's dishes? I would rather have cheaper dishes than expensive used ones? I never understood how people bought on ebay used baby highchairs or things like that.

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Age: 28 Posts: 8702

OY! That must be a huge hassle for you!

First amother, let us know what comes out of this. I feel so bad.
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Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

No, we didn't know that they would be used!!! We broke a few plates and we never got all the bowls, so we figured we would get them. Then we learned they were used!

Posted: Wed, Aug 20 2008, 11:56 pm Post subject:

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Moderator Joined: Nov 20 2005 Posts: 4868

Replacements has many items that are brand new as well. You can call them and ask if the original labels are intact. If you get a decent person on the phone they'll actually inspect each item for you.

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Every single on of our bowls can with a scanable, "intact" sticker. It means nothing.

Moderator Joined: Nov 20 2005 Posts: 4868

I don't mean from replacements, I mean from the original company.
Replacements buys off all leftover stock from discontinued patterns directly from the company. Those should have an intact label from the brand name of the product. Not a scannable Replacements label.

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Well, all of the bowls and plates had the EXACT same sticker as the NEW ones we got from the company. Somehow replacement.com gets the same stickers. It was a problem. Anyway, you can all do what you want to do. I just wanted to tell everyone my experience so they don't lose time and money, oh, and eat on treif dishes like I almost did.

Call the company, Call your LOR and decide for yourselves.

Silver Member Joined: Jul 23 2007 Posts: 869

I wish I could pretend I hadn't read this thread. I ordered from replacements.com YEARS ago. Needless to say, those pieces would be completely mixed in with the originals. Uch! DH is going to have a fit! I'm getting a stomach ache just thinking about what we might have to do. And we have no money right now - for new dishes or anything else.

Platinum Member Joined: May 06 2007 Posts: 8518

Talk to your Rav, maybe it's ok because they're mixed in. Maybe it's ok, bc you'll suffer a loss.